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Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is a British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours List. In 2000, Mendes was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany. In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 15 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture". Born in Berkshire to a Trinidadian Catholic father and an English Jewish mother, Mendes grew up in North London. He read English at Peterhouse at Cambridge University. He began directing plays there before joining Donmar Warehouse, a centre of 1990s London theatre culture. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1993), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). For the first time, he directed an original West End stage musical with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013). For his work on the London stage, Mendes has received three Laurence Olivier Awards for Company, Twelfth Night, and The Ferryman. On Broadway, he earned two Tony Awards for Best Direction of a Play for The Ferryman in 2019 and The Lehman Trilogy in 2022. In film, he made his directorial debut with the drama American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director. He has since directed the films Road to Perdition (2002), Jarhead (2005), Revolutionary Road (2008), and the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015). For the war film 1917 (2019), he received the BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, as well as his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Mendes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Sam Mendes
Director
for Director in Captain America: Man Out of Time
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A year after Loki's attack on New York, Steve Rogers is struggling to adapt to modern society and works for S.H.I.E.L.D. in Washington D.C. He befriends fellow agent Sam Wilson and trains at the Triskelion. Rogers, Black Widow, and Hawkeye are sent on a mission to retrieve stolen S.H.I.E.L.D. tech from terrorists in Germany. During the mission, Rogers discovers that Black Widow has a secret agenda for Fury, leading to distrust. Meanwhile, HYDRA mercenary Baron Helmut Zemo, seeking revenge on Captain America, allies with Arnim Zola to take down Rogers, believing the super soldier serum can cure his Virus X condition. Zemo leaks damaging information about Dr. Erskine, the creator of the serum, causing public distrust in Rogers. As Zemo's attacks intensify, he injures Fury and Hill, pushing Rogers to confront his past and his role in the present. Steve learns that Erskine collaborated with Zemo's father for the serum, further shaking his trust in S.H.I.E.L.D. Despite the revelations, Steve fights Zemo, reaffirming his commitment to protect and fight for the ideals of justice and truth. After defeating Zemo and exposing his plan, Steve regains his status as a hero. He continues his work with S.H.I.E.L.D., now with a clearer understanding of his mission and a stronger bond with his teammates. Rogers visits Peggy Carter, who expresses her pride in him, reaffirming his resolve to remain true to his values.
